MANY kids in the grip of Harry Potter and TV shows like Sabrina the Teenage
Witch - starring Melissa Joan Hart, left - and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are
casting spells in their bedrooms.
And many leaders of mainstream faiths are worried... for witchcraft is one of
the fastest- growing religions in the world.

Witches, or followers of Wicca, do not believe in Hell or that the Devil exists.
What Christians call Heaven, Wiccans call the Summerlands.

Wiccans align their faith to nature and worship the balance in all things.
They regard the Earth as their Mother. The word witch comes from the Anglo -Saxon
word wicce, which means to bend or shape, and from which the modern word wicker
is derived.

Witches live by what is known as "The Threefold Law". It states that
whatever they send out into the world shall return to them three times over.

Recent statistics show that 40 per cent of UK teenagers are interested in the
occult, while surveys show middle-class women are most likely to abandon traditional
religion for white magic.
Recently, one bookseller in England refused to stock Harry Potter novels because
he felt they would encourage children to dabble in the occult.

He said that, as a committed Christian, he could not allow the books inside
his premises.